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Parcae

noun

Any of the three Roman goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Greek Moirai and similar to the Norse Norns.

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"Parcae" Quotes from Famous Books

... sport of me. I told you it wanted to vanquish me three times. I bellowed like a steer under the knife of the slaughterer, and begged the Parcae to cut the thread of my ...

— Best Russian Short Stories • Various

... too extensive for a preparatory course; and these very translations require some previous knowledge of the subject to make them intelligible. Let any one who doubts it read the first page of the "Aeneid," and see what he can make of "the hatred of Juno," the "decree of the Parcae," the "judgment of Paris," and the "honors of Ganymede," without ...

— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch

... when done With other; and one bore it off elsewhere; A third selected from the fleeces spun, And mingled by that second, foul from fair. "What is this labour?" said the peer to John; And the disciple answered Otho's heir, "Know that the Parcae are those ancient wives, That in this fashion spin your ...

— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto

... me most were, the mistress of Raphael, a portrait; the mistress of Titian, a portrait; a Venus of Titian in the Medici gallery—the Venus; Canova's Venus also in the other gallery: Titian's mistress is also in the other gallery (that is, in the Pitti Palace gallery): the Parcae of Michael Angelo, a picture: and the Antinous, the Alexander, and one or two not very decent groups in marble; the Genius of Death, a sleeping ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

Words linked to "Parcae" : Roman deity